A Few More Things on Nikki Haley

RUSH: Moving back to Nikki Haley just for a brief moment, starting with a couple of sound bites here. Jonathan Karl on World News Tonight last night.

KARL: South Carolina's governor, Nikki Haley, the rising conservative star, who famously called for the Confederate flag to come down, included an attack on Trump in the official Republican response to the State of the Union. The line caught conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, by surprise.

RUSH ARCHIVE: It's the first time in my life I can remember the response to the State of the Union not going after the president but rather going off on the front-runner of, in this case, her own party.

RUSH: It is remarkable, and not just Trump. She made it clear later that she wasn't just talking about Trump. She was talking about some in the media. Now, some of you out there say, "Hey, Nikki Haley, she's not establishment. She's Tea Party." Fine. That's what I always thought. But this is clearly an establishment angle of attack, to go after this mythical anger out there and to try to distance Republicans from it as though, "Oh, my God! Those people, they embarrass us. We're not them!

"Don't think of us as one of those people. We're not mad here in Washington. We want to cross the aisle and work with the Democrats. We want to cooperate with the Democrats. We want to be bipartisan. We want to show we can govern, that we can make government work. We want to show that Washington can work, so don't accuse us of being mad." I mean, that's how the establishment talks, of their own people. Here is Erin Burnett on Erin Burnett OutFront last night on CNN.

BURNETT: Haley said she was referring to Trump and others last night in her State of the Union rebuttal when she warned against following, quote, "the angriest voices." Her speech bringing a brewing battle within the Republican Party out into the open. Some praising Haley for the message. Others, like Rush Limbaugh, slamming the governor, saying it is the first time in his life he can remember a response to the State of the Union not the going after the president but after one's own party.

RUSH: That does concern me, and I want to thank Jonathan Karl and Erin Burnett for focusing on the thing that I said rather than making something up.

RUSH: Just to wrap this up here, folks, and then moving on to other things involving me, 'cause we have 'em. And I've got...

Anyway, wrap up this Nikki Haley thing. What bothers me and what bothered me about the response is, with all of this damage that Obama and the Democrats have done and continue to do and promise to do, all of the wreckage that they have made of this country, focusing criticism in a response to a pathetic Obama speech on people in your own party and to criticize them, I don't understand that.

Sadly, I do understand it. It comes from a position of almost guilt and defensiveness. If you think that in the middle of the opposition party literally transforming and destroying the founding and the principles and the moral fiber, everything else that's under assault, in the middle of that, you can't comment on that, you've gotta go out and attack people in your own party for being mad or for being outrageous or what have you.

It just seems really to miss the point. It seemed misguided. It seemed not helpful at all. And I think it's either one of two things, and one of the things is a defensiveness and a guilt, a belief that in this case Trump's behavior, "Yeah, it's making us all look bad. It's making the media look right. It's making all of our critics look right. Oh, my God, oh, my God, I don't want to be associated with that so I have to criticize it so that they won't lump me in with it."

It's either defensive, with a little tinge of guilt making it happen, or else it was strategic and comes from a position of trying to make sure or deny Trump the leadership and the nomination. But I don't care. Whichever those two it is, it doesn't make sense that when the opposing party gets a nationally televised shot to tell the American people what's wrong, why it's wrong, and how we're gonna change it, you don't do that. You go out and start ripping, criticizing people in your own party, it doesn't connect with me.

Anger over what's going on in this country is legitimate. So is loud anger over what has happened and continues to happen. And the Republican Party's continued focus on criticizing their own members, as though they are embarrassed of them, confuses me. I don't understand or appreciate defensiveness, the seeming need to send a message to the whole country that you disagree or are embarrassed of people in your own party, because it's also interpreted as questioning their sincerity and motives and competence. And it doesn't seem helpful to me.

And I don't know -- well, I do know who it's designed to impress, who the intended audience for that kind of thing is. And that's all it is. It's not personal. Like I told you, I like Nikki Haley. I've always thought she's had a great, great future. That's why all this came as a huge surprise to me. And sadly, a missed opportunity. But that's that. Enough of that.

RUSH: I mentioned, ladies and gentlemen, that CBS dragged Bob Schieffer out of retirement to talk about me and I guess it's... Well, me and whatever else I'm saying, along with Charlie Rose. And we set it up with this. CBS This Morning. This is not Bob Schieffer. He's still on his way. This is Gayle King, the BFF of The Oprah, and she is talking with Norah O'Donnell about the Nikki Haley response to the State of the Union and reaction to that. Here's the exchange that they had. This, again, is Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell.

KING: Conservative critics also bashed Haley's message. Rush Limbaugh called her part of the Republican establishment that is trying to stop Donald Trump.

SCHIEFFER: I started out saying, "Well, he's a reality TV star." I've changed my definition. He is a master showman who has this impeccable timing and this ability to sort of control the conversation.

RUSH: I misspoke. Bob did get there in time to appear on this, and then after Bob showed up, then they asked him, they start asking questions about me, and Charlie Rose is part of the whole deal. So you have here, you have Gayle King, you have Bob Schieffer and Charlie Rose all weighing in on all of this.

ROSE: Even Rush Limbaugh said, "It's starting to dawn on the elites," he says, "that Donald Trump could win the presidency." He's way ahead in most of the primary states.

SCHIEFFER: I have said from the very beginning that I took Donald Trump seriously, and I took him seriously because I know how angry people are. People are frustrated. I mean, the government does nothing. You know, Ronald Reagan called this the shining city on the hill has become the town where nothing works. And people are fed up with it. And along comes Donald Trump, who says the things that a lot of people wish they had the nerve to say to their boss.

RUSH: Whoa. Do you understand, Bob Schieffer knows how angry it is out there and the Republican establishment doesn't. That is astounding that a retired member of the Drive-By Media understands it. Isn't it interesting. Does that sound like the Bob Schieffer that you've known? It does not. It's Bob Schieffer justifying everything Trump's doing, justifying the anger, justifying all this and saying he knew it from the get-go, that he knew Trump was serious from the get-go. And Bob continued. Charlie Rose said Donald Trump is one big surprise, about how about Bernie Sanders and how about the Democrat race and the challenge that he's mounted to Hillary in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bob? What about all that?

SCHIEFFER: This is unbelievable, really, when you come right down to it. Here you have the Democratic Party, the oldest party, it's been around for a long, long time, and yet it has managed to come up with one legitimate candidate, Hillary Clinton. I mean, where are these candidates now? So along comes a guy who is a confessed socialist, says he's a socialist, says he is not a capitalist in a country built on free enterprise, and he's giving her this -- that just shows you that this frustration people are feeling, it's being felt on the left as far as the right.

RUSH: Right. So Bob is essentially agreeing here the Democrats have become the Jurassic party. They can't find anybody but Bernie Sanders, a committed socialist, to oppose Hillary? Now, what that should tell him is about the Democrat Party, not the country. The fact that the only serious opposition that party can mount is an anti-capitalist, anti-free enterprise, anti-free markets, pro-government socialist? And, by the way, this is getting serious. I mean, it's been serious for a while. It's getting "seriouser."

Hillary's now attacking the source of money for Bernie Sanders. Washington Post: "Clinton's Attacks Produce Windfall of Campaign Cash for Sanders." She's attacking Bernie Sanders, but that's creating beaucoup fundraising dollars for him. It's like Obama. He goes out there and promises to take executive action on guns and causes gun sales to go through the roof. Hillary's going out there and hitting Bernie Sanders and his fundraising is going through the roof. He's raising even more money. He's lapping her when it comes to fundraising.

Everything Hillary is doing when it comes to Bernie Sanders is backfiring. And that, I'm here to tell you, is not within the realm of Clinton experiences. The Clinton experience and their world is when they set out to criticize and rip somebody, they're finished. That's it. When the Clintons hit you, the media join with them and take you out. What's happening now is Hillary hits Bernie, his fundraising goes sky-high, his support ratchets up, and it's backfiring on her. And now, as almost a hail Mary, they've sent Chelsea out there.

Chelsea Clinton, who has been shielded and protected and told hands off her whole life to the media. You don't talk to her. You don't say anything about her. You don't publish her picture. You don't take any video. You don't do diddly-squat. Now, the Clintons have thrown Chelsea out there. She's on the attack against Bernie Sanders, and the Democrats almost en masse are saying, "What in the heck is this about? Why is Hillary doing this?" They think it's ineffective. They think, furthermore -- this is a bit of a stretch -- but they think it's a misuse of Chelsea's talents. You got me. I don't know, what are Chelsea's talents? Doing reports on CBS? No. NBC. What are her talents? Don't misunderstand. I'm not saying she doesn't have any. I just don't know what they are.

But some people think she's got some that are being misused. They note that Chelsea Clinton has mostly been used to go out there and say great things about her mother. She goes out there and talks about her mother's softer side and how her mother likes to play pinochle and Hillary likes umbrella drinks and she's just the funniest person. I've had this happen to me, by the way. I've had it happen to me. People say, "you misunderstand, Hillary's the most fun person in the world to be around. She laughs at everything. She's one of the funniest people you ever met. She loves umbrella drinks. You ought to see some of the jokes she does with the umbrellas when they bring out a pina colada."

I've actually heard all this, and my reaction, "Well, where is it? And why are you having to tell me? Why is it not self-evident? Why can't she get past the Nurse Ratched persona?" That's what they use Chelsea for, send Chelsea out there to there tell everybody how nice her mother is and how sweet and what a great mother she is, what a great grandmother she is. And now they're sending her out there as attack dog on old Bernie, and it's not flying with a whole lot of Democrats out there.

I’ve been on this board longer than you have.

I stated what I was talking about. If you disagree, fine. But I’m not a troll and not a liberal, so stop those stupid, fallacious counterarguments.

If I went to India and really loved that country and being an Indian citizen were most important to me, I would not change my screen name to “Ghostopal of Philipalam Marloweyaman.”

If I even considered it, would feel that I were trying to deceive people, that I was being sneaky. I’d also feel that I were insulting the Indian people, as though they were too racist or prejudiced to accept someone with an American name. I’d use my real name. I’d take part in as much of their culture as I could. I’d work hard and learn the language. I’d contribute as much as I could. And I’d probably name my children using Indian names (not American names and then adopting an Indian sounding nickname).

You accuse me of sounding like the typical liberal troll, and then you go and use the “R” attack on me, just like they would.

I had this same criticism of Piyush “Bobby” Jindal. It’s insulting for them to use such an absurd nickname (and his came from Bobby Brady, of all the ridiculous sources) on either of two levels:

1. Either they are trying to be deceptive and hide their ethnicity and pretend to be “real ‘mericans” in order to advance their careers.
or
2. They think “real ‘mericans” are so stupid and racist that they’d never vote for someone with one of them “funny, foreign-soundin’ names.” This after the country elected a Manchurian candidate by the name of Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama a mere seven years after 9/11.

Either way you slice it, it is insulting to Americans and comes across as a cheap tactic.

Like I said, you want to disagree, that’s your prerogative.

But one of the reasons that Trump is so popular and has such a broad base of support is that the American people are tired of being kicked around and we are tired of immigrants coming here both illegally and legally solely to pursue their own selfish advancement and with no true love of this country. This does not apply to those who come here and truly love America, only to those who use it for selfish advancement.

Nimrata has proved that her use of “Nikki” is a form of deception. She ran as a TEA-party type of candidate and turned out to be just another RINO. She gave the SOTU response and, rather than go after a long, long list of wrongs that Obama and the Democrats have perpetrated over the past 7 years, she chose instead to attack the Republican party’s top candidate.

Whose side is she on, anyway?

Hard to tell when she works so hard to hide her true self behind a mask.

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